The Iraq War Essay

The Iraq War Essay

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The Iraq War Weapons of Mass Destruction (recent?)
The United States and United Kingdom intelligence services claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. However, weapons inspectors never located any weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was invaded based on lies and deceit on behalf of the United States. The United
States Military should immediately withdraw from Iraq.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were informed repeatedly that the search for weapons were futile. Therefore, they created a secret group called the Office of Special Plans to supply the Bush administration with raw intelligence on Iraq. In addition, the unconfirmed information was spoon-fed to the public by news reporters, to create panic throughout the nations.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State (2001-2005), citied many anonymous Iraqi defectors. Powell asserted that, “There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more” (14). The Bush administration immediately declared war on Iraq. However, it was later reported by Britain’s Channel 4 News that the intelligence dossier that Powell presented to the country was a plagiarized essay (fine paper) by an American graduate student, Ibrahim al-Marshi. For example, a 2004 report by the Iraq Survey Group concluded that the evidence that Powell offered to support the allegation that the Iraqi government possessed weapons of mass destruction was a blatant lie (Alexandrovan1). There were no weapons of mass destruction found.
President Bush was aware that the rumors of mass destruction weapons were unfounded and yet he led Americans and the United Nations to war. Personal revenge and hatred against Saddam spawned the Iraq war. Bush,...

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...as threatening the unity and the sovereignty of Iraq,” he said, as if the United States had played no role (Rubin1). Some American commanders were taken by surprise at Maliki’s insistence on taking credit for all security successes in Iraq. This was clearly a slap in the face to the American soldiers, who are being wounded and killed daily. Hopefully, the Iraqis can control the violence and peace throughout the nations without American intervention in the future.

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